North Quotes - page 5

The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey. (Ernest Thompson Seton)
In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call. View quote
Barbara Demick
I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong. View quote
Adam Johnson
But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer. View quote
Adam Johnson
It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast. View quote
Jim Harrison
Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many north African fish dishes. View quote
Yotam Ottolenghi
Like an explorer returned from a distant planet or another dimension, Suki Kim has many extraordinary tales to tell, among them how different--and how awful--life is for those who live in North Korea. The devil is in the details here, for her gritty narrative focuses on everyday events to reveal how repression shapes daily life, even for the most privileged. Yet Kim also bears witness to that part of the human soul that no oppressor can ever claim. View quote
Carlos Eire
And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon. View quote
Kim Dae-jung
You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany. View quote
Kim Dae-jung
I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside. (Cornelia Funke)
Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death. View quote
Cressida Cowell
We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true North. View quote
Elizabeth Dole
The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms. View quote
Christopher Dawson
Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us. View quote
James Earl Jones
It is time to give city and county regions the powers and resources they need to promote growth, and I will happily work with all of those who are genuinely committed to building an economic powerhouse in the north. View quote
Jo Cox
Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000. View quote
Mark Millar
Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes. View quote
Alden Nowlan
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone. View quote
William Westmoreland
Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere. View quote
Alan Jackson
Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture. (Alex Campbell)
We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise. View quote
Alex Campbell
Most independent filmmakers in Britain and North America work for commercial crews and then have their own projects when they've got enough money saved up to do so. View quote
Ann Macbeth
The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because I think people in America, in North America, know that we have a very strong food safety system and that our food is safe to eat. View quote
Ann Veneman
I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is so connected to emotions. View quote
Anna Camp